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The question that determines whether this is racial profiling is this:
If we change the relevant variable, in this case ethnicity and sex, would they have been treated the same? If it had been a group of white and Asian women, say me, my sister, my wife, and a couple of her sisters, would we have been detained, questioned, moved, and guarded? Would a group of middle aged white guys?
I rather suspect the answer to the first is almost certainly no, and for the second group, very likely no. Let's not forget that the worst terrorist attack on the US prior to 9-11 was committed by a couple of white Christians.
Seems very likely to me that this was at least partially racial in nature.
Gilda
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